Germaine Greer Quotes

The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along the elder brother weeps. For too long I have not been able to work in harmony with these changes. So, given that I did not play my part in harmony with others, how could I expect to change people?

The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

To everything there is a season.

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.